[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Bad Astronomer notes the circumstances of the discovery of a low-mass black hole, only 3.3 solar masses.
• Crooked Timber shares a photo of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.
• The Crux looks at Monte Verde, the site in Chile that has the evidence of the oldest human population known to have lived in South America.
• The Dragon’s Tales notes that Russia may provide India with help in the design of its Gaganyaan manned capsule.
• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing talks of his work, including his upcoming conference and his newsletter, The Convivial Society. (Subscribe at the website.)
• Gizmodo shares the Voyager 2 report from the edges of interstellar space.
• JSTOR Daily looks at the East India Company and its corporate lobbying.
• Language Hat shares an account from Ken Liu of the challenges in translating The Three Body Problem, linguistic and otherwise.
• Language Log looks at the problems faced by the word “liberation” in Hong Kong.
• Dan Nexon at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the implications of the surprising new relationship between Russia and the Philippines.
• Marginal Revolution seems to like Terminator: Dark Fate, as a revisiting of the series’ origins, with a Mesoamerican twist.
• Sean Marshall announces his attendance at a transit summit in Guelph on Saturday the 9th.
• Garry Wills writes at the NYR Daily about his experience as a man in the mid-20th century American higher education looking at the rise of women.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel looks at the strangely faint distant young galaxy MACS2129-1.
• Window on Eurasia considers the possibility of Latvia developing a national Eastern Orthodox church of its own.

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait is skeptical that the Trump-era EPA will deal well with global warming.
• Discover’s The Crux considers the challenge of developing safer explosives for fireworkers.
• The Dragon’s Gaze links to a paper considering the (real) possibility of Earth-like worlds orbiting neutron stars.
• Language Log notes an odd use of katakana in Australia.
• The LRB Blog considers the possibly overrated import of George Osborne’s move into the newspaper business.
• Marginal Revolution notes one observer’s suggestion that China could sustain high-speed growth much longer than Japan.
• The NYR Daily shares Eleanor Davis’ cartoon journal of her bike trip across America.
• Peter Rukavina does not like the odd way Prince Edward Island made its library card into a museum pass.
• Starts with a Bang’s Ethan Siegel notes the odd galaxy MACS2129-1, young yet apparently no longer star-forming.
• Strange Company explores the strange death of 17th century New England woman Rebecca Cornell.
• Unicorn Booty looks at how early Playgirl tried to handle, quietly, its substantially gay readership.
• Window on Eurasia looks at one Russian proclaiming Russia needs to stop an imminent takeover by Muslims.